Attachment for chairs.



W. T. LILLY. ATTACHMENT FOR CHAIRS. APPLICATION HLED JUNE 5, 1915.

1,Q39,U1 8, PzitentedSept. 4, 1917.

IINIED %TATE% PATN I IQ.

WILLIAM T. LILLY, OF GLEN MORGAN, WEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTHTO HALLECK MQGINNIS SCOTT AND ONE-FOURTH TO CYRUS HUDSON MEADOB,

BOTI-I OF BECKL'EY, WEST VIRGINIA.

ATTACHMENT FOR CHAIRS.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lViLLIAM T. LILLY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Glen Morgan, in the county of Raleigh and State of WVestVirginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inAttachments for Chairs, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in chairattachments and especially in the provision of a removable and foldingtable or shelf for arms of chairs and affording a simple and efficientdevice of this nature so constructed that the same may be convenientlyadjusted in place and removed when desired.

My invention consists of various details of construction, combinationsand arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described,shown in the accompanying drawings and then specifically defined in theappended claim.

I illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a top plan view showing the application of the table to thearms of a chair.

Fi 2 is a central sectional view.

Fig. 3 is a view showing the table folded.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, Adesignates a chair which may be of any kind, either rocking orstationary, and provided with arms B. C, C designate sections of a tableor shelf, having their adjacent ends hinged together as at D, and theouter end of each section has a contracted projecting portion F adaptedto engage a recess I-I formed in the inner edge of the arms. Therecesses are of such a depth as to receive the contracted projectingpart of the table and the shoulders I formed at the inner ends of thepro- Specification of Letters Patent.

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jecting portions are adapted to bear against the inner edges of thearms, as shown in the sectional view when the sections are adjusted inplace and serve as a means for steadying the table. The upper surface ofthe sectional table, it will be noted, is preferably flush with theupper surfaces of the arms and affording a smooth level surface uponwhich a person may rest a book or pad for reading or writing or forvother purposes.

In adjusting the sectional table in place, the two contracted ends arebrought in registration with the recesses and the two sections pusheddown, throwing the ends into the recesses. A reverse movement orbreaking of the joint intermediate the sections will serve to remove thesections from the recesses in the handles.

hile I have shown projecting portions of the table sections which engageslots, it will be understood that any projecting means may be fastenedto the sections and made to engage the slots or other changes as todetails without in any way departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim to be new is In combination with a chair having armsprovided with slots in the inner marginal edges thereof above theirtransverse centers, boards hinged together end to end, each board havinga tongue projecting from the outer end thereof and adapted to engagesaid slots in the arms, the upper faces of the boards and said armsbeing flush with one another.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM T. LILLY.

lVitnesses A. L. I-IoUerI, A. R. FOWLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe, Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

